Apple expands reach in home

March 01, 2006|By From news services.

Apple expands reach in home

Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple on Tuesday introduced a speaker system for iPods and a revamped Mac Mini that will let users access music, video and photos across their home networks. The Intel-powered Mac Mini ranges in price from $599 to $799, and the iPod Hi-Fi is $349.

Woman tried to reach window

A woman who slipped from her boyfriend's grasp and fell to her death from a 23rd-floor apartment in Harrisburg, Pa., had been sitting on a ledge trying to touch her feet to a window one story below, the boyfriend told police. Kevin Eckenrode, 25, has been charged with homicide and was being held without bail Tuesday.

NASA plans 3 shuttle flights

NASA plans to launch three space-shuttle flights in 2006 if engineers can solve the ongoing problem of dangerous debris falling from the ship's external fuel tank during liftoff. During Discovery's July launch, 16 major pieces of foam insulation broke off. That flight was the first to test a two-year redesign of the tank after the Columbia accident in 2003.

CBS radio sues Howard Stern

CBS Corp.'s radio division sued Howard Stern on Tuesday, claiming its former star shock jock breached his contract with them when he moved to Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. Stern said the lawsuit was meritless and said CBS was trying to "bully" him. He called the lawsuit a "personal vendetta" against him by CBS CEO Leslie Moonves.

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Boy chewed out over gum incident

The Detroit Institute of Arts is stuck with having to repair a painting worth $1.5 million, because a 12-year-old visitor left a stain when he stuck a wad of gum on it. Officials said the boy was with a school when he stuck the gum on Helen Frankenthaler's 1963 abstract painting "The Bay."